Last week I was buying some tools at Ace Hardware, and I noticed they had a nice display case full of Case, Buck and Gerber knives. It was the usual assortment you’d expect, but there were a couple of Case pocket knives that caught my eye. The display case was

Sunwayman is a Chinese flashlight manufacturer who is making a name for themselves as a maker of higher end LED flashlights. Most of their lights range from about $80 to well over $300. They are especially known for their superb fit and finish. They have consistently shown first rate machining

I originally bought this knife to replace the Cutco pocket knife that I lost during the holidays. I wanted something a little easier to get my hands on than the Cutco, which I could only find on eBay. After some digging on the Internet, it seemed like the Kershaw Chill

I use to think there wasn’t much to LED flashlights. That was before I discovered a whole world of people who took flashlights seriously. Like many “flashaholics” before me, I learned most of what I know from reading a guy named Selfbuilt’s reviews on the CPF web site. So I

Bobby and I had a great time in Idaho. The weather finally warmed up for a trip outdoors, but it was still a little chilly on our outing. I think it got down to 29 degrees! Bobby’s tent. He chose smooth terrain but on an incline. Found a nice clearing

Don’t Say It From the minute I took it out of the box, the word lingered in the air, unspoken. Man-purse. The wife snickered. “It’s not a man-purse” I said, only halfway believing it myself. “I didn’t say a thing” she said. But I knew what that snicker was. We

One of the issues with being a nerd who likes the outdoors is that I have a lot of small electronics that I don’t want to get wet if I’m camping near a lake or out on the water. Camera, phone, thumb drives, batteries, it all adds up. Even if

Ever since I was a young boy living in the remote wilderness of, uh, southern California, I’ve always liked flashlights.My dad was an electronics engineer, and he used to take them apart and put battery packs in them, making them rechargeable. We used to go camping a lot, and we